The 1936 United States presidential election in Maine was held on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election. The state voters chose five electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Maine voted for Republican Party candidate Alf Landon of Kansas, over Democratic Party candidate and incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Landon won Maine by a margin of 13.97%, making it his best state in the Union, and with 55.49% of the popular vote, made it his second strongest state after nearby Vermont. Landon achieved this despite losing two counties (Washington and York) that had voted for Herbert Hoover in 1932, as he made gains of up to ten percent in the rock-ribbed Yankee counties of Hancock, Lincoln and Waldo.

Maine had been one of only 6 states to vote to re-elect Hoover, the embattled incumbent Republican president, over FDR in the latter's 1932 landslide, and in 1936, it was one of only two states in the entire nation (along with nearby Vermont) to vote for Alf Landon over the wildly popular Roosevelt. Maine and Vermont ultimately would be the only states to reject FDR in all four of his presidential campaigns.

Results

Results by county County Alfred Mossman LandonRepublican Franklin Delano RooseveltDemocratic William Frederick LemkeUnion Various candidatesOther parties Margin Total votes castScammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 203 # % # % # % # % # % Androscoggin 10,480 38.14% 16,657 60.62% 250 0.91% 90 0.33% -6,177 -22.48% 27,477 Aroostook 14,708 64.69% 7,704 33.88% 218 0.96% 106 0.47% 7,004 30.81% 22,736 Cumberland 30,021 55.56% 22,895 42.37% 904 1.67% 210 0.39% 7,126 13.19% 54,030 Franklin 4,957 62.53% 2,859 36.06% 82 1.03% 30 0.38% 2,098 26.47% 7,928 Hancock 9,151 72.06% 3,315 26.10% 187 1.47% 47 0.37% 5,836 45.96% 12,700 Kennebec 14,987 55.34% 11,268 41.61% 706 2.61% 120 0.44% 3,719 13.73% 27,081 Knox 6,567 60.36% 3,991 36.69% 252 2.32% 69 0.63% 2,576 23.67% 10,879 Lincoln 5,252 72.62% 1,850 25.58% 87 1.20% 43 0.59% 3,402 47.04% 7,232 Oxford 8,778 57.13% 5,836 37.98% 619 4.03% 133 0.87% 2,942 19.15% 15,366 Penobscot 19,077 60.82% 9,732 31.03% 2,318 7.39% 241 0.77% 9,345 29.79% 31,368 Piscataquis 4,057 55.61% 3,051 41.82% 151 2.07% 36 0.49% 1,006 13.79% 7,295 Sagadahoc 3,707 51.99% 3,273 45.90% 125 1.75% 25 0.35% 434 6.09% 7,130 Somerset 7,558 56.91% 5,282 39.77% 334 2.51% 107 0.81% 2,276 17.14% 13,281 Waldo 5,309 64.97% 2,678 32.77% 159 1.95% 26 0.32% 2,631 32.20% 8,172 Washington 6,387 44.06% 7,925 54.67% 129 0.89% 54 0.37% -1,538 -10.61% 14,495 York 17,827 48.09% 18,017 48.60% 1,060 2.86% 166 0.45% -190 -0.51% 37,070Totals168,82355.49%126,33341.52%7,5812.49%1,5030.49%42,49013.97%304,240

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic Washington York

See also United States presidential elections in Maine 1936 United States presidential election in Vermont - Alf Landon's other sole win in 1936

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